Diplomat who became Trump Twitter target
One of the high points at this year’s BridLit has to be the appearance of Lord Darroch who, as the British Ambassador to the US, was scorned by a furious Donald [...]
Richard Osman’s murder mystery hits the spot
I baulked when I read somewhere that Pointless presenter Richard Osman’s debut murder mystery novel was part of a two-book deal secured for a reputed seven figure sum. Surely that couldn’t [...]
A song of hope for the countryside
Reading James Rebanks gives me hope that the farms of the present can in future be more like those of the past. His latest book, English Pastoral, the follow-up to the [...]
The show must go on (fingers crossed)
The last six months have been an anxious time for everyone. Without a cure or vaccine to rid the world of Covid19, there doesn’t seem to be an end in sight. [...]
Living in a dystopian novel
Well, who would have thought this time last year that, twelve months’ hence, we’d all be stuck at home in lockdown because of a global pandemic which began in a far [...]
TANYA BRUCE-LOCKHART Festival Director
The Bridport Literary Festival is now in its 16th year and goes from strength to strength, hosting a programme of events featuring an eclectic cast of writers of fiction and non-fiction [...]
Bridport Literary Festival is bestseller
This year’s Bridport Literary Festival has been a bestseller, with events packed out and a line-up to appeal to all tastes. Festival director Tanya Bruce-Lockhart declared 2019 to be a ‘vintage [...]
BridLit 19 shapes up to be best yet
MAIN SPONSORS: from left, Kitson & Trotman’s Richard King and Jason Hodnett, Bridport Waterstones manager Mike Paine, BridLit director Tanya Bruce-Lockhart, Jack Wightman from Waterstones and Tracy Scammell from Kitson & [...]
How E Nesbit defied convention
A conflicted feminist, the children’s writer E Nesbit threw away her corsets, cut her hair short and took up smoking. She defied convention. Yet she once delivered an uncharacteristic speech so [...]